Remember these? (Dallas, Plano: to live, horses, places)

[barney lee douglas]

Originally Posted by Fullback32

I used to go out to Roxy. Didn't really like the music (I usually hung around Cardi's or Mad Cap Mollie's), but it was a good place to meet folks. Did I ever ask you to dance? You know me...shoulder length dark brown hair parted down the middle, winged back and feathered, Black Members Only jacket...shoot, that doesn't narrow it down much, huh? hehe

Any one go to the studio Club? That's where I got my Slo Gin Fizz hangover being 18 and legal my senior year.
BLD

[barney lee douglas]

Originally Posted by Fullback32

I used to go out to Roxy. Didn't really like the music (I usually hung around Cardi's or Mad Cap Mollie's), but it was a good place to meet folks. Did I ever ask you to dance? You know me...shoulder length dark brown hair parted down the middle, winged back and feathered, Black Members Only jacket...shoot, that doesn't narrow it down much, huh? hehe

Originally Posted by Grainraiser

Another place I loved going to was Baby Doe's of Stemmons. It was very popular and stayed opened for a long time for a restaurant. When I was in highschool Baby Does and the restaurant on top of Reunion were top dogs.

Remember the sign by Baby Doe's with the waterfall. My Dad helped build it back in the early 60's.
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[barney lee douglas]

Originally Posted by Fullback32

Here's a Dallas memory....Crazy Ray at Cowboys and Dallas Tornado games. When I was a kid, I liked his top hat that would squirt water.

That and his whistle...sooo loud!
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[Fullback32]

Originally Posted by barney lee douglas

Remember the sign by Baby Doe's with the waterfall. My Dad helped build it back in the early 60's.
BLD

Yeah, it started out as a Pearl Beer sign if I remember right. I always thought that sign was so cool when I was a kid.

[Lyoung3337]

Originally Posted by Fullback32

My god i've had fun with this thread and I've gotten nothing done at work today! It has brought back so many memories from my youth. I grew up in Irving and lived there until I joined the Air Force back in 1984.

So many things brought up! Medallion Center...I remember going there to eat at Zuider Zee and going to the Medallion Store. Mom would always buy me a comic book when we went there. When I got older and was in High School - Bishop Dunne (yes, drove from Irving every day to Dallas to go to school), there was a club in Medallion Center called Cardi's ("Party Hardy at Cadri's" they would say on the Zew) that I used to haunt, especially when "Rocky Athas and Lightning" played there. Any of you guys remember that place or that band?

I remember that band..they were awesome. I would go everytime they played. I was so a regular at that bar when it was the Bijou and when it was Cardis. I even had a card to get in without paying the cover. Those were the days. They had the best bartenders there and on Thursday ladies drank free. It was the best of times.

[Lyoung3337]

My favorite at Valley View Mall was Bob's Old fashion Ice Cream. Best ice cream bars and fresh lemonaid.

I got my first motorcycle ride on Forest and my friends and I lived to cruise on Friday nights. We also drank the Boones farm and baby bulls like someone had posted earlier. I don't think any one had money at that time for anything stronger. (LOL)

What's weird is I still remember the name of the policeman that gave us such a hard time. I wonder what became of Officer Curtis after they banned cruising.

[barney lee douglas]

Originally Posted by Fullback32

Yeah, it started out as a Pearl Beer sign if I remember right. I always thought that sign was so cool when I was a kid.

It was stacks of hay and gunited with cement like a concrete swimming pool.
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[Fullback32]

Originally Posted by barney lee douglas

It was stacks of hay and gunited with cement like a concrete swimming pool.
BLD

Very cool. Well, your Dad's worked kept me entertained! I was glad to see it was still there when I went to back Dallas last year.

[Lakewooder]

I just saw a story about that sign being re-built - haven't found it yet but found this:

Super Signage

[Mckellyb]

Wow. This is a cool, albeit long, thread.

Having been gone for 11 years, I've been going through a certain amount of shock as to what has changed. This thread is not helping....

Royal lane west of Luna isn't underwater for two months of the year, anymore. California Crossing, Emerald, and the eastbound LBJ service road just west of Stemmons, aren't used for late-night weekend drag racing anymore.

Ah, to be chased off by helicopters...and to be a kid, again.

I'm taken aback by the fact there are townhouses built in the Valley Ranch area of Irving. I mean, that land had to be damned-near free 20 years ago.

Then again, the area where the new AA arena is used to be nothingness, although you could use a cut-through under the old, yet still functional, waterfall Coors sign, to get to NW downtown from the Infomart area.

El Fenix is my wife's favorite Tex-Mex restaurant, so I'm happy to see most, if not all, the old locations are open. Downtown, Forest & Webb Chapel, NW Highway & Hillcrest, I-20 & Cooper, plus one we found in Grapevine, literally just passing by.

I miss Tupinamba. It was across from Bachman Lake, good Mexican food. I used to bowl in a kids league at the Hart Bowl. There was a kid in my high school who lived at the Circle Inn.

I'm floored Prestonwood is gone. My sister did much ice-skating there....

I recall, vaguely, being in a nightclub around Love Field which had the nose of a plane jutting out of an exterior wall. I think it was called the Pilot Lounge. Had a lit floor just like in Saturday Night Fever. I was maybe 7 when I was in there, so it looked huge.

Back in the late-80's/early-90's, I was a regular at the Tijuana Yacht Club. Tuesdays were dollar drink night at the Safari Bar, which was over on Electronic Lane (by Dave & Busters, which I'm surprised is still there). It was an awesome night/dance club, even though I was a solid 10-15 years younger than the happy-hour crowd. Met my wife there, actually....

Seeing Central Expressway being useful is a new thing, and I'm still amazed by it. I recall the incessant sell job on making it double-decker, ala Austin's I-35 & 183. Yeah, that's so attractive...and it works so well.... <repeated eye-rolling>

European Crossroads managed to survive, which is a shock to me. Many of the "gentlemen's clubs" have closed, which is even more surprising, but it makes me quite happy. I lived not far from Webb's Chapel Extension when I was 10-25 years old, so I saw it fall apart, firsthand.

I was thinking about people and television shows... Iola Johnson, Verne Lundquist, PM Magazine, Bowling for Dollars.... This got me to remembering Don Carter's bowing lanes...both of 'em, the one on Electronic and the one over at NW Highway and Abrams... Gabriel's in the Holiday Inn at Josey & LBJ...played many a night of NTN trivia there.

Man, I'm gettin' old. At least there's still an oldies radio station in town. Problem is, they play music newer than what I have on album....

Oh, wait....

I'm glad KEOM is still around so I can get my 70's disco fix. Strangely enough, I listened to KLUV when I was in high school in the early-to-mid 80's. I still don't fit in, but that's fine.

When I went to NTSU, er, UNT, the commute was lots of nothing. Now is it one never-ending suburbia.

I remember taking night-time pictures on the 'intersection in the sky' at the Tollway and LBJ before it was open. Actually, that cloverleaf provided a nice 'skidpad' as a kid, and it was the only place you could drive on the Tollway for free.

Ah...the Turnpike, or as I still refer to I-30 between Dallas and Ft. Worth, the old Turnpike. My folks took me to a Ranger's game, in the $2 bleachers, the day tolls were shut down. Wish I had that toll-ticket.